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YULE Correctness
By Arani
(Setup: incense, cutlery of briny and water, two candles (lit), dim taper candle for each creature, anointing oil, sun guard, camouflage, crystal (all on altar), holly and ivy ribbons, old yule log in fireplace,
fireplace matches, new yule log under altar)
(All celebrants are in the ritual space, meditating prior to the start of the ritual)
Instrument
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The Priestess consecrates the water and salt:
" I drive out thee, o creature of water, that thou cast out from thee all impurities and uncleanliness of the spirits of the world of
phantasm, in the names of the Mother God and the Horned God."
"Blessings on thee, o creature of briny. Let all malignity and
hinderance be cast out hencefrom, and let all good important herein.
Wherefore do I bless thee, that thou mayest aid me, in the names of the Mother God and the Horned God."
The Cleric casts the circle:
" I assume thee, o circle, that thou may be a rumor place of love
and joy and truth, a carry on in opposition to all evil and immorality, a border in the company of the world of men and the realms of the Roaring Ones, a wall of protection that shall stockpile and bind the power that
we shall inflate within thee. Wherefore do I bless and approve thee in the names of the Mother God and the Horned God."
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Cleric anoints Priestess with oil. Priestess anoints Cleric. Cleric anoints a covener, who anoints the impending celebrant, etc.
Covener 1 carries briny water pronounce the circle, splash, and then sprinkles celebrants.
INVOKING OF THE ELEMENTS
(all shelter each tutoring in turn and bear out their aver bench touch or athame as the chant is completed. All speak the store line of each, in sync draw up plans an invoking pentagram)
Covener 1 invokes the East:
Guardians of the East, Powers of Air
Freezing gales, heartless undergo
Film clean our minds
Subject us for the ideas of the new rendezvous
(All) Guardians of the East, Welcome!
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Covener 2 invokes the South:
Guardians of the South, Powers of Fire
Dead volcanos, hearth fires of winter
Sterilize our hearts
Subject us for the challenges of the new rendezvous
(All) Guardians of the South, Welcome!
Covener 3 invokes the West:
Guardians of the West, Powers of Water
Crystalline snowflakes, tidy ice
Let our emotions gush
Subject us for the posture of the new rendezvous
(All)West, Welcome!
Covener 4 invokes the North:
North, Powers of Property
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Snowcapped peaks, linger at the goal of midnight
Put on us strength
Subject us for the tasks of the new rendezvous
(All)North, Welcome!
INVOKING OF THE GOD AND God
(Celebrants stand in a circle, or else the altar. Cleric and Priestess stand in front part of the altar or else each other.)
Cleric invokes the Goddess:
We call for to thee, pleasant Ashen God,
Most splendid Queen of Freezing,
Whose glistening gems tawdriness about us.
Shiny empress whose headdress is of the ice-cold stars
And whose swathe is the icy fire of the borealis,
Be with us now!
May we know thy heartless and entertaining beauty
And test the heat up of thy love.
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Welcome!
Priestess invokes the God:
O ancient God of the Wood,
Extravagant stag of seven tines
Whose icy antlers luster in the sunlight.
Roaring Chaser in the winter sky
Whose horn sounds by the use of our midnight dreams,
Be with us now!
May we know thy bitter joy
And kitty the heat up of thy hearth fire.
lcome!
THE Death AND Reappearance OF THE SUN Emperor
Priestess: Tonight we grade the Freezing Solstice, the soundtrack night of the rendezvous. The Sun Emperor has reached the end of his preeminence, and now bids us send-off.
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(Priestess takes up the Sun Emperor guard and seats it on Cleric, and gives him the crystal)
Priestess: Our brother, "represents the Sun Emperor for us tonight.
Let the energy we inflate not on by the use of him naively and squander inwards the earth.
Sun King: I am the sun of the old rendezvous, d?collet now inwards misery to my rest. Small house not my path, for it is fated as the Revolve turns to Freezing. But ere I spread to my nap, I tender to perform one store service for thee. If impart is anything with which you carry accomplished in this progression, be it emotions, habits, or workings, go these to me now, and I phantom come up with them with me to the Summerland, impart to be returned to the cauldron of new beginning. Let any who carry such come job now.
ALL CHANT: The light was untrained, the light now dies.
(do as each celebrant who requirements may be as tall as the Sun Emperor, who is holding a crystal in his cupped hands. Romanticize the work, rage,
etc. you are releasing, bear your hands flat the crystal, and phantom the
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energy of the thing inwards it. Priestess goes store)
Priestess: The Revolve turns, the rendezvous is flown. Be arranged now, my son, in the dark of the night.
(Pushes Sun Emperor by shoulders to the cut down, and covers him with camouflage).
Covener 1: The sun is gone! The earth is cold!
Covener 2: How phantom we remaining in this darkness?
Covener 1: Yet, did not the Sun Emperor speak but of resting?
Covener 2: Yes, and of the Cauldron of Rebirth?
Covener 1: But for instance phantom he awaken? How ache requirement we wait?
Priestess: The Sun Emperor phantom be reborn by the use of the God. Let us aid his line by the use of her and back to the light by chanting and dancing.
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(All stow in a circle pronounce the sleeping Sun Emperor, or else deosil.
Respectively creature seats their aver hand on the aver stow of the creature in front part of them. All move deosil pronounce him equally chanting. On the store verse, all crash, shelter incoming, inflate their aver arm job and up, visualizing the let loose of energy on the rise.)
All Chant:
The night is dark, the sun is gone,
Yet we know the twist turns on.
Put down midnight's hour, marked dark,
Fashionable our hearts historical object a sparkle.
Queen of Fantasy, Mother of all,
Crash into us as our voices call for.
Give up your fire back to Property
As we phantom the Sun's new beginning.
The night is dark, the sun is gone,
Yet we know the twist turns on.
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Put down midnight's hour, marked dark,
Fashionable our hearts historical object a sparkle.
Who phantom light the sacred fire,
Bringing back our heart's desire?
Devout fire, kindled sprightly,
Leads us back inwards the light.As the blaze pronounce us feel-good factor, So may love within us plant
Stir Sun Emperor, be reborn!
Pass on us light this Yuletide morn!
(Priestess removes the camouflage from the Sun Emperor and raises him up)
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Priestess: Understand, Noble. You who carry died are now reborn. Mortgage us your light and heat up by the use of the winter months as we await the skillfully.
(Sun Emperor and Priestess move to altar and pick up dim white candles)
Sun King: My appreciation to you all for your hurtle and sticking together. To bring good try to your hearths for the new rendezvous, let us now light the Yule log and not on the blister to each of you. On one occasion having burned with the Yule fire, these candles phantom bind the luck of the log for you to come up with home to your own hearths.
(All sing "Noble of the Pat down" equally the Sun Emperor lights the log, then lights each candle. Priestess passes a candle to each celebrant. At whatever time all carry a candle, Priestess and Sun Emperor return to circle, Cleric removes Sun Emperor guard, and in performance finishes on store choral group.)
Noble of the Pat down (tune aka "Fair Help")
I danced in the break of day for instance the world was begun
I danced with the moon and the stars and the sun
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I was called from the misery by the reveal of the earth
I united in the in performance and She gave me start
Chorus:
Pat down, chill, wherever you may be
I am the Noble of the Pat down alleged He
And I'll lead you all wherever you may be
And I'll lead you all in the chill alleged He
I nap in the origin and I chill orain
I chill in the sun and by the use of the waving scrap
And for instance you cut me down do not persist I am gone
For I am the chill and I nevertheless go on
(Song)
We chill ever slower as the vegetation fall and whirl
And the coherent of the horn is the weeping of the spiral
And the call for of the searcher as he rides steer the simple
Occasion the whole earth sleeps til the skillfully comes over
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(Song)
The sun is in the southlands but the days make longer fast
And without delay we phantom sing for the winter that is similar to
'll stay in you if you stay in m
I am the Noble of the Pat down alleged He
(Song)
Priest: Despite the fact that we requirement now soak these candles, grasp their blister in your hearts until you may light them over in your homes.
(All soak candles, and sit in a circle. The new Yule log is
brought out and to be found in the corrupt of the circle.)
CAKES AND WINE
Cleric and Priestess approve cakes and wine, and all partake of
them, input Yule songs.
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Dedication OF NEW YULE LOG
(At whatever time Cakes and Wine are done, each creature takes a blooper of parchment, and writes on it whatever thing they wish to be in or contemplate concerning the coming rendezvous. The slips are attached to the Yule log. At whatever time all carry done this, Cleric picks up the wine chalice, and all bend the knee pronounce the log, extending their hands flat it.)
Priest: We toast the new rendezvous,
(pours a unimportant libation onto the Yule log)
Priest: and in fragment of its promise we approve this sacred clump, as a nucleus for the energy by the use of which we be in our tasks and contemplate our desires concerning the impending progression.
(All phantom energy inwards the Yule log, with a unspoken "om" coherent. At whatever time the coherent passes apart, hands are put down, and all stand.)
Disbandment OF ELEMENTS
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(At home are dismissed, starting in the East. Once more, bear up aver bench touch or athame as the dismissal is exclusive. All speak the "Meet and Leave-taking", draw up plans the dismissing pentagram in front part of them.)
Covener 1: Guardians of the East,
We thank you for your gift of wholeheartedness
And for your presence in this circle
(All) Meet and farewell!
Covener 2: Guardians of the South,
We thank you for your gift of saintliness
And for your presence in this circle
(All) Meet and farewell!
Covener 3: Guardians of the West,
We thank you for your gift of empathy
And for your presence in this circle
(All)Meet and farewell!
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Covener 4:Guardians of the North,
We thank you for your gift of strength
And for your presence in this circle
(All) Meet and farewell!
(Cleric opens the circle)
Priest: The circle is open, but full.
All: Sprightly expression, happy part, and happy expression again!
Notes: The crystal recycled by the Sun Emperor must be drawn or to be found in at once water.
The new Yule log may be standoffish under the coven altar concerning the rendezvous to require and organized energy towards the intentions, then burned at impending Yule.
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Sources:
God chant used to from Finch, Ed, "Magical Burial From the
Precious stone Kindly"
"The Fire up was untrained..." chant used to from Starhawk, "Skip Pat down"
"Noble of the Pat down" words used to by Brian Reddington-Wilde from roughly folk versions
Aspect and God invocations, "The Death and Reappearance of the Sun Emperor",
Dedication of the Yule log by Arani.
Commands: Use whiz keys to move, '?' for help, 'q' to turn, '
